Antebellum slave narratives
Subtitle: cultural and political expressions of Africa
By: by Jermaine O. Archer.
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780415990271; 9780203881682
Subjects: Slave narratives -- United States -- History and criticism; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Pan-Africanism in literature; Africa -- In literature; Africa -- Social life and customs; Africa -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Speaking Guinea and a mixture of everything else" : the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass re-visited; title: William Wells Brown : subtle whispers of slave culture, pan-Africanism & insurgency; title: "Moses is got de charm" : Harriet Tubman's mosaic persona; title: Harriet Jacobs : a larger discussion of the John Kuner Parade and other cultural recollections; title: Discourse on the slave narrative and a new interpretation on Black anti-slavery ideology.